• @decisivelyhoodnoises
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    29 months ago

    I hate the internet over-romanticization of the “superfocus” and people believing they have a superpower

      • @decisivelyhoodnoises
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        29 months ago

        Agree with your comments. Do you know if the term hyperfocus is being used in official ADHD characteristics or is it a completely internet made up thing based only on experiences?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          29 months ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus

          From section about ADHD:

          “These inattentive symptoms occur dually with what has been termed “hyperfocus” by the 2019 European Consensus Statement on Adult ADHD.”

          So I think it’s officially recognised? But name of that term sucks as much as “ADHD”. Both are very misleading.

          • @decisivelyhoodnoises
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            29 months ago

            Yeah it looks it is official. Then I guess we’ll have to live with it and the internet hype it misleadingly creates

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      19 months ago

      Yeah my hyperfocus is just “focus on all the bad things and get nothing done. Enjoy the panic attack”

      That ain’t no super power to me. Maybe once a month I get the actual beneficial form of it and it’s generally wasted on something like a video game or other menial task.